Red Velvet Trifle

Red Velvet Trifle

Searching for the perfect dessert? Look no further! This beautiful and tasty Red Velvet Trifle is sure to please any crowd with its sweet and decadent flavor.

Course
Dessert

Cuisine
French

Prep Time25minutes

Cook Time40minutes

Total Time1hour5minutes

Servings8

Ingredients

Cake

3csifted cake flour

2Tbsunsweetened cocoa powder

1tspbaking soda

1tspbaking powder

½tspsalt

2csugar

1cbuttersoftened

2large eggs

1 ½cbuttermilk

1(1-ouncbottle red food coloring

1tspvanilla extract

Custard

2cmilk

few drops of vanilla essence

6egg yolks

½ccaster sugarsuperfine granulated

2tspcornflour

Berry Mix

6ozraspberries

6ozblueberrries

6ozblackberries

3ozgooseberries

3ozred currants

Instructions

Cake instructions

Preheat oven to 35Coat 10x15” jelly roll pan with cooking spray. Combine dry ingredients, set aside. Bat sugar and butter with an electric mixer until well blended. Add eggs and beat for 5 minutes or until fluffy. Combine buttermilk, food coloring, and vanilla in a small bowl, and stir with a whisk. Add flour mixture to sugar mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Mix just until moistened. Pour batter into pan. Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes. Cool cake completely and cut into 1”x2” chunks.

Custard instructions

Combine the milk and vanilla essence in a saucepan. Warm gently but do not let the liquid boil. In a bowl, beat the egg yolks, sugar and cornflour together until creamy. Add the warm milk. Strain the mixture back into the clean pan and cook, stirring constantly, until the custard thickens and coats the back of the spoon. Cool completely.

Trifle instructions

Line the bowl with a layer of berries. Put a layer of cake covering the berries. Pour on a layer of custard. Repeat until ingredients are all used or bowl is full.